[SLUG] Ubuntu gutsy, ATI 2600HD mobility and toshiba a200 = cronic balding

[Mitchum Cox]

No its not the standard error you might think it is. It works great,
desktop effects full resolution and such. However when I run most apps
that use 3d, eg Wine or any of the apps that come with ubuntu, my X
dies and reboots gdm. Curiously though, i downloaded a program called
toribash (www.toribash.com) that uses 3d and it doesnt crash. It does
run slowly though. I will also add that if i move the window that
toribash is running on, maybe 3 seconds later X crashes. So it seems
that compiz fusion and other 3d apps dont play nice. HOWEVER, even
with compiz off, these crashes still occur.

So could anyone point me in the right direction or just help us out full stop?
Thanks, much appreciated
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[SLUG] Re: [Voyage-linux] Dual Atheros miniPCI wifi on an ALIX3 card

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi all,
See known issue section in ALIX2/3 manual

   http://www.pcengines.ch/pdf/alix2.pdf

"Senao NMP-8602 PLUS high power radio cards are not supported at this 
time, pending an answer from Senao on power issues."


Moreover, there was an ECN issued that the 2nd Mini-PCI slot did not 
work on some earlier version of ALIX3.


Please check with PCEngines on your issue.

Regards,
Punky

Howard Lowndes wrote:

This is a project on which I am currently working in Nepal and am having
some trouble configuring Atheros cards.

The ALIX3 card from PC Engines GmbH has 2 Senao 400mW Atheros based radio
cards.

Configuing one card is not a problem, but when I try to configure them
both they appear to have a conflict of personality.

This is the relevant piece out of the /etc/network/interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet static
address 10.5.3.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode adhoc
# madwifi-base wifi0
# wireless-mode Ad-hoc
up iwpriv ath0 mode 3
up iwconfig ath0 channel 2
up iwconfig ath0 mode ad-hoc
up iwconfig ath0 essid RIDS-Nepal-03
up iwconfig ath0 txpower auto
up iwconfig ath0 enc 524944534E6570616C53525333
up iwconfig ath0 rate auto
#up nat.sh ath0 eth0 "10.1.20.0/24"

auto ath1
iface ath1 inet static
address 10.5.2.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi1 wlanmode adhoc
# madwifi-base wifi1
# wireless-mode Ad-hoc
up iwpriv ath1 mode 3
up iwconfig ath1 channel 7
up iwconfig ath0 mode ad-hoc
up iwconfig ath0 essid RIDS-Nepal-02
up iwconfig ath0 txpower auto
up iwconfig ath0 enc 524944534E6570616C53525332
up iwconfig ath0 rate auto
#up nat.sh ath0 eth0 "10.1.20.0/24"



This is the relevant piece of what I see with ifconfig, and it all looks
fine:

ath0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:49:EF:65
  inet addr:10.5.3.1  Bcast:10.5.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe49:ef65/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:230 (230.0 b)

ath1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:49:EF:64
  inet addr:10.5.2.2  Bcast:10.5.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe49:ef64/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-02-6F-49-EF-65-30-3A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:254 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:64
  TX packets:276 errors:23 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
  RX bytes:11684 (11.4 KiB)  TX bytes:31080 (30.3 KiB)
  Interrupt:9

wifi1 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-02-6F-49-EF-64-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:395
  TX packets:753 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
  RX bytes:97324 (95.0 KiB)  TX bytes:34638 (33.8 KiB)
  Interrupt:11



This is what I see with iwconfig:

ath0  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"RIDS-Nepal-02"  Nickname:""
  Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.417 GHz  Cell: 02:02:6F:49:EF:65
  Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
  Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:5249-4453-4E65-7061-6C53-5253-32   Security
mode:restricted
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality=38/94  Signal level=-55 dBm  Noise level=-93 dBm
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

ath1  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
  Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Cell: Not-Associated
  Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
  Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:off
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-94 dBm  Noise level=-94 dBm
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0



In the latter you will note the following:

ath0 has grabbed the ESSID and the key of the config for ath1, and poor
old ath1 has neither ESSID nor key.  ath0 appears to 

[SLUG] Dual Atheros miniPCI wifi on an ALIX3 card

[Howard Lowndes]

This is a project on which I am currently working in Nepal and am having
some trouble configuring Atheros cards.

The ALIX3 card from PC Engines GmbH has 2 Senao 400mW Atheros based radio
cards.

Configuing one card is not a problem, but when I try to configure them
both they appear to have a conflict of personality.

This is the relevant piece out of the /etc/network/interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet static
address 10.5.3.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode adhoc
# madwifi-base wifi0
# wireless-mode Ad-hoc
up iwpriv ath0 mode 3
up iwconfig ath0 channel 2
up iwconfig ath0 mode ad-hoc
up iwconfig ath0 essid RIDS-Nepal-03
up iwconfig ath0 txpower auto
up iwconfig ath0 enc 524944534E6570616C53525333
up iwconfig ath0 rate auto
#up nat.sh ath0 eth0 "10.1.20.0/24"

auto ath1
iface ath1 inet static
address 10.5.2.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi1 wlanmode adhoc
# madwifi-base wifi1
# wireless-mode Ad-hoc
up iwpriv ath1 mode 3
up iwconfig ath1 channel 7
up iwconfig ath0 mode ad-hoc
up iwconfig ath0 essid RIDS-Nepal-02
up iwconfig ath0 txpower auto
up iwconfig ath0 enc 524944534E6570616C53525332
up iwconfig ath0 rate auto
#up nat.sh ath0 eth0 "10.1.20.0/24"



This is the relevant piece of what I see with ifconfig, and it all looks
fine:

ath0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:49:EF:65
  inet addr:10.5.3.1  Bcast:10.5.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe49:ef65/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:230 (230.0 b)

ath1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:49:EF:64
  inet addr:10.5.2.2  Bcast:10.5.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe49:ef64/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-02-6F-49-EF-65-30-3A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:254 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:64
  TX packets:276 errors:23 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
  RX bytes:11684 (11.4 KiB)  TX bytes:31080 (30.3 KiB)
  Interrupt:9

wifi1 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-02-6F-49-EF-64-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:395
  TX packets:753 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
  RX bytes:97324 (95.0 KiB)  TX bytes:34638 (33.8 KiB)
  Interrupt:11



This is what I see with iwconfig:

ath0  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"RIDS-Nepal-02"  Nickname:""
  Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.417 GHz  Cell: 02:02:6F:49:EF:65
  Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
  Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:5249-4453-4E65-7061-6C53-5253-32   Security
mode:restricted
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality=38/94  Signal level=-55 dBm  Noise level=-93 dBm
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

ath1  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
  Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Cell: Not-Associated
  Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
  Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:off
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-94 dBm  Noise level=-94 dBm
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0



In the latter you will note the following:

ath0 has grabbed the ESSID and the key of the config for ath1, and poor
old ath1 has neither ESSID nor key.  ath0 appears to have grabbed the
correct channel (2), but ath1 appears to either default to channel 1 or
picks up a locally strong channel (11).

It has to be something pretty obvious but I am not seeing it.

TIA


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LANNet Computing Associates 
When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux;
When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft.

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Re: [SLUG] ClamAV user interface on Ubuntu 7.10 - how to access GUI?

[Aleksey Tsalolikhin]

Thank you all for responding!

We've got latest version of clamtk up on the system as a GUI front end
to ClamAV and the user is happy.

Thanks!
Aleksey
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Re: [SLUG] sim card reader on LInux

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, ken Foskey wrote:

> I am worried about loosing my phone  and it does not have bluetooth  or
> IR.

Does your phone support SyncML?  If so, you can backup everything to:
http://zyb.com/

Or even sync your calendar with Google Calendar:
http://goosync.com/

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The Tourist Engineer
Geeks need vacations too.
http://engineer.openguides.org/

A lifetime of listening to disco music is a high price to pay
for one's sexual preference

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Re: [SLUG] image content management

[david . lyon]

Quoting Ben Donohue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


anyone have experience with an OS CMS primarily for images?
I know there are heaps of CMS packages for docs. Something that can be
searched for images with metadata, possibly scan images from various
file server sources and give thumbnail images or whatever. Something
based on LAMP.

Anyone used/tried/found something that works really well for them?


One CMS that I helped set up in the NSW Department of Commerce was
Plone. It does images right out of the box and has quite a good
publish model and javascript search capabilities.

Plone is python based, and has a number of really cool add-ons for
images on top of it's built-in functionality.

Disadvantages are that it runs on its own python web server so
you would have to set it up on your own machine. Or find one of
the plone hosting companies.

In a couple of instances, it manages an image library just fine...

Regards

David




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